Favorite Things: Authors – Rhian

This is a tough one. You saw my library and those are the books I’ve got left after Mr.C made me cull them when we moved to Singapore in 2007! Okay, let me take a look……

1) Nora Roberts – I have almost all her books. In fact I’m so close to a complete collection I can taste it. I love that she breaks one of the fundamental rules of writing and gets away with it. I want to be her when I grow up. 🙂 Oh, and I have the movies they made of her books as well.

2) Brenda Novak – A recent discovery for me but I love a good romantic suspense story and Brenda does them so well. Her Last Stand series are a favorite but then I haven’t been disappointed by any of her books.

4) Any author who writes a great contemporary. I love nothing better than losing myself in a great contemporary story whether it be a novel or novella. There’s nothing better than turning the pages, or tapping the screen, on a story so enthralling you forget all about the washing or what you’re cooking for dinner. There are some brilliant contemporary authors out there, Lori Foster, Susan Mallery, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, to name just a few.

5) I’ve got so many favorite authors that I can’t pick my top five so I’m cheating. (nobody point out #4!) My fifth choice is going to be books in general. I read across the sub genres of romance and to be honest it doesn’t matter whose name is on the copyright page. All I’m after is a great story, a few hours of time where I’m sucked into someone else’s life. Where I feel their joy, their sorrow, and every other emotion life brings until I hit those final pages of sweet satisfaction. Of course if the characters are getting ‘satisfaction‘ of another kind 😉 throughout the book even better. 🙂

So tell me, who are your top five authors? Any I might be interested in?

I’ve actually read most of the authors on your list. Nora is awesome. We stop by her husband’s book store at least once per year when we’re in their neck of the woods. She has book signings 4 or 5 times a year and invites a few other authors to share the space. If you ever want, I’ll be happy to stop in a pick up whatever books you’re missing (possibly even signed).

As for top 5……that changes as I change. I know on my auto buy list I have Lorelei James/Lori Armstrong, Cherise Sinclair, Marie Force and a whole lot more. My house reflects that as I have books every where and over 500 on my kindle.

A couple of her earlier ones. I’d have to search the book shelves to be sure but they’ve been pulled out from the wall so we can try and sort out this stupid internet issue we’re having and I can’t actually get to the shelf parts now. lol